OCS Lab News
March 2024: MK is invited to join the Editorial Board of Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters. Congratulations to the Group and Alumni for all the hard work.
February 2024: Pravin's book chapter on the Pd-Catalyzed Functionalization of Heterocycles Through C-H Activation is accepted in the book: Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry: Functionalization of Heterocycles/Heteroaromatics through Transition Metal Catalyzed C-H Activation, (Springer) (Editors Profs. D. Maiti and U. Sharma), Congrats!
February 2024: Tapasi's review article on the creation and modification of organic fluorophores via TM-catalyzed C-H activation of heterocycles is accepted in Synthesis, Congrats!
January 2024: Tapasi, Princi and Nehali's work on the Co(II)-catalyzed peri C(sp2)-H hydroxylation of NMI is accepted in Chem. Commun., Congrats!
January 2024: Neel and Habib join our research group for their PhD, welcome!
December 2023: Pooja, Aakash and Gaurav's work on a sequential transition metal and organocatalytic approach to the enantioselective synthesis of C2-spiroindoline systems is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
December 2023: Neha, Tapasi and Prajyot graduate and leave IISERB. Congratulations and farewell and wish all three of you a very bright future ahead!
October 2023: MK is elected as a Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India, Prayagraj. Congratulations to the Group and Alumni for all the hard work.
October 2023: Prajyot receives the Best Poster Presentation award at the XVIII J-NOST symposium at IISER Pune, Congratulations!
October 2023: Tapasi successfully defends her PhD Thesis, Congrats!
October 2023: Neha successfully defends her PhD Thesis, Congrats!
September 2023: Neha and Subhadip's work on the Fe(II)-catalyzed 1,6-conjugate addition to p-quinone methides via a site-selective ring opening of bicyclo[n.1.0]alkanols is accepted in Chem. Commun., Congrats!
August 2023: Prajyot successfully defends his PhD Thesis, Congrats!
August 2023: Neha and Pragya's review on strained cycloalkanols in C-C bond formation reactions, has been accepted in Org. Chem. Front., Congrats! This article is a part of the themed collection 2023 Organic Chemistry Frontiers Review-type articles.
July 2023: Nandkishor, Shivam, and Aakash graduate and leave IISERB. Congratulations and farewell and wish you all lots of luck and a bright career ahead! Nandkishor will soon move to Japan for a post-doc and Shivam will join The Ohio State University for his PhD.
July 2023: The collaborative work by Neha, Wentao (UC Davis) and Kevin (UC Davis) on a Ru-catalyzed, Cu-mediated site-selective alkylation of isoquinolones via a C−C bond activation of cyclopropanols , has been accepted in Chem. -Eur. J., congrats!. Thanks as well as congratulations to our collaborator Dean J. Tantillo (UC Davis) for the very important insights into the mechanistic aspects of this work.
June 2023: Princi and Suchithra's work on Pd-catalyzed distal -C-H olefination of ferrocenes via a template approach, has been accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Congrats!
June 2023: Tapasi and Laxmikanta's work on Rh(III)-catalyzed ortho-C-H amidation of naphthalene and perylene imide dyes, has been accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
April 2023: Nandkishor, Prajyot and Nitish's work on 1,3-oxyarylation of vinyl diazo esters in the cobalt-catalyzed domino C-H activation/carbene migratory sequence is accepted in Chem. Commun., Congrats!
March 2023: Neha's book chapter on "(Het)Arene/(Het)Arene Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling for C(sp2)-C(sp2) Bond formation", has been accepted in Science of Synthesis (Editor Debabrata Maiti), Congrats!
January 2023: Deveen joins our research group for his PhD, welcome!
December 2022: Ajit, Govind and Pooja's work on the total synthesis of the resorcylic acid lactone (-)-Neocosmosin A using the Pd-catalyzed α-arylation of enones as a key step, is accepted in Eur. J. Org. Chem., Congrats!
November 2022: Nandkishor and Nitish's work on merging cobalt and photoredox catalysis to demonstrate a vinylogous reactivity of vinyl diazo esters in the C-H allylation of benzamides is accepted in Chem. Commun., Congrats!
November 2022: Santosh's work on a selective approach towards indoles and aniline derivatives via a catalyst-controlled chemodivergent reactivity of vinyl cyclopropanes, is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
November 2022: Nandkishor successfully defends his PhD Thesis, Congrats!
October 2022: The collaborative work by Prajyot, Manoj (KAUST) and Supreeth (UC Davis) on Rhodium-catalyzed heteroannulation via a merged C-H functionalization and cascade cyclization process, has been accepted in Chem. -Eur. J., congrats!. Thanks as well as congratulations to our collaborators Luigi Cavallo (KAUST) and Dean J. Tantillo (UC Davis) for their wonderful insights into the mechanistic aspects of this work.
August 2022: Pragya joins our research group for her PhD, welcome!
June 2022: Ayush, Akshat, Nehali and Nitish graduate and leave IISERB, Congratulations and farewell and wish you all lots of luck and a bright career ahead! Nehali will now be joining Michigan State University.
May 2022: Tapasi and Laxmikanta's work on Rh(III)-catalyzed one-step synthesis of ortho-alkynylated perylene imide dyes, has been accepted in Chem. -Eur. J., Congrats!
March 2022: Ajit joins our research group as a post-doctoral fellow, welcome!
March 2022: Pravin's work on Ru-catalyzed oxidative coupling of vinylene carbonate with isoxazoles in the synthesis of anthranils, has been accepted in Chem. Commun., Congrats!
March 2022: Nandkishor and Paritosh's work on Rh(III)-catalyzed C(7)-H alkylation of quinolines in the synthesis of angular π-extended pyrroloquinolines for single component white light emission, has been accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
January 2022: Neha receives the Best Oral Presentation award at the XVII J-NOST symposium at Hyderabad, India, Congratulations!
November 2021: Neha, Roushan and Paridhi's work on Ir(III)-catalyzed C(3)-H alkylation of isoquinolines via metal carbene migratory insertion has been accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
November 2021: Neha's book chapter on "Dehydrogenative Annulation of Heterocycles: Synthesis of Fused Heterocycles", has been accepted in Transition-Metal-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization of Heterocycles (Editors Anil Kumar and Tharmalingam Punniyamurthy), Congrats!
October 2021: Santosh and Suchithra's review article on Transition metal-catalyzed functionalizations of isoxazoles, has been accepted in Asian J. Org. Chem., Congrats!
October 2021: Pravin successfully defends his PhD Thesis, Congrats!
September 2021: Pravin's book chapter on "Mechanistic understanding of Ru-catalysed C-H functionalization reactions", has been accepted in The Handbook of C-H Functionalization (Editor Debabrata Maiti), Congrats!
September 2021: Neha and Nandkishor's review article on Transition metal-catalyzed C-H functionalizations via metal carbene migratory insertion , has been accepted in Chem. Rec., Congrats!
July 2021: Pravin and Prajyot's review article on Transition metal-Catalyzed C-H Functionalizations of Indoles , has been accepted in New J. Chem., Congrats!
June 2021: Prakash, Princi and Roushan graduate, Congratulations! Prakash and Roushan leave IISERB; Farewell and wish you lots of luck and a bright career!
May 2021: Nitish, Akshat and Nehali join our research group for their BS-MS dissertation.
March 2021: Pravin and Santosh's work on Ru(II)-catalyzed and Cu(II)-mediated Synthesis of Pyrroles from Isoxazoles, has been accepted in Org. Biomol. Chem., Congrats!
February 2021: Prajyot's work on Rhodium-Catalyzed Heteroannulation via a Merged C-H Functionalization and Cascade Cyclization Process, is now on ChemRxiv.
January 2021: Ayush joins our research group for his Master's dissertation in the IPhD program.
January 2021: Gaurav leaves IISERB to join PI Industries, Udaipur, India; Farewell and wish you lots of luck and a bright career!
January 2021: Gaurav's review on Pd-catalyzed functionalization of activated and non-activated C(sp3)-H bonds has been accepted in Chem. Commun., Congrats!
December 2020: The Group completes its return to the Campus and the Lab is back to its original state (with social distancing!).
November 2020: Paridhi joins Elsevier as a Managing Editor for the Tetrahedron Family; Farewell and wish you lots of luck and a bright career!
August 2020: Gaurav successfully defends his PhD Thesis, Congrats!
August 2020: Subhadip joins our research group for his PhD, welcome!
July 2020: Pravin's work on Cu-mediated synthesis of functionalized pyridines from isoxazoles is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats !
June 2020: Mamata and Paridhi graduate, Congratulations! Mamata leaves IISERB to pursue her PhD at IISERK; Farewell and wish you lots of luck and a bright career!
April 2020: Pravin's work on Ru(II)- and Cu(II)-mediated synthesis of trisubstituted pyrroles from isoxazoles and acrylate esters is accepted in Asian J. Org. Chem., Congrats!
March 2020: Paridhi successfully defends her PhD Thesis, Congrats!
February 2020: MK is selected for the SERB-STAR Award 2020. Congratulations to the Group for all the hard work.
February 2020: Pooja and Mamata clear the CSIR-JRF exam, Congrats!
January 2020: Suchithra joins our research group as a DST Woman Scientist, welcome!
January 2020: Princi and Prakash join our research group for their Masters dissertation in the IPhD program.
November 2019: Gaurav's work on remote functionalization in gamma- and epsilon-arylation of unblocked cyclic enones is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
October 2019: Riki, Nandkishor and Akanksha's work on "Catalyst-control in positional-selective C-H alkenylation of N-acetyl-1,2-dihydroquinolines" is accepted in Chem. -Eur. J., Congrats!
September 2019: Surendra leaves IISERB to join H. N. Bahuguna Gharwal University; Farewell and wish you lots of luck and a bright career!
August 2019: Paridhi and Neha Maida's work on "Dioxazolones as Masked Ester Surrogates in the Pd(II)-Catalyzed Direct C-H Arylation" is accepted in Chem. Commun., Congrats!
August 2019: Diksha and Srikanth's work on "Oxazolinyl-Assisted Ru(II)-Catalyzed C-H Allylation with Allyl Alcohols" is accepted in J. Org. Chem., Congrats!
July 2019: Pooja joins our research group for her PhD, welcome!
July 2019: MK is selected to receive the CRSI Bronze Medal 2020. Congratulations to the Group for all the hard work.
June 2019: Akanksha and Diksha graduate and leave IISERB. Farewell and wish you lots of luck !
May 2019: Chiranjit leaves IISERB; Farewell and wish you lots of luck and a bright career!
May 2019: Mamata joins our Research Group in the IPhD Program, welcome!
April 2019: Chiranjit and Prajyot's work on "Rh-catalyzed C-H dienylation of Anilides" is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
April 2019: Riki, Nandkishor and Akanksha's work on "Ru-catalyzed C(3)-H olefination" is accepted in Synthesis, Congrats! This article is an invited article for the Special Topic on "Ruthenium in Organic Synthesis"
March 2019: Neha completes her Compre and Graduate Seminar, Congrats!
March 2019: Pravin's work on "Catalyst-control in Positional-selective C-H Alkenylation of Isoxazoles and a Ruthenium-mediated assembly of trisubstituted Pyrroles" is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
February 2019: Srikanth leaves IISERB to move to SUNY Buffalo, NY; Farewell and wish you lots of luck and a bright career!
February 2019: Chiranjit successfully defends his PhD Thesis, Congrats!
January 2019: Tapasi completes her Compre and Graduate Seminar, Congrats!
December 2018: Srikanth successfully defends his PhD Thesis, Congrats!
December 2018: Virendra's review article on "Catalyst-controlled positional-selectivity in C-H functionalizations" is accepted in Org. Biomol. Chem., Congrats!
December 2018: Paridhi gets the "Best Poster Award" at IDeC Symposium held at IISERB, Congrats!
November 2018: Srikanth and Nandkishor's work on Oxazolinyl-assisted Ru(II)-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization Based on Carbene Migratory Insertion is accepted in Adv. Synth. Catal., Congrats!
October 2018: Prajyot completes his Compre and Graduate Seminar, Congrats!
September 2018: Chiranjit's work on the Total Synthesis of the Proposed Structure of Mycobactin J is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
July 2018: Srikanth, Tapasi and Diksha's work on Ruthenium-catalyzed C-H Functionalization of Benzoic Acids with Allyl Alcohols is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
May 2018: Riki's review on Transition Metal-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization of pi-Deficient Heterocycles is accepted in Asian J. Org. Chem., Congrats!
May 2018: Neha Maida graduates and leaves IISERB; Congrats and Farewell, wish you lots of luck!
May 2018: Santosh and Diksha join our Research Group in the IPhD Program, welcome!
April 2018: Riki's review on Transition Metal-Catalyzed C-H Halogenations is accepted in Asian J. Org. Chem., Congrats!
April 2018: Riki leaves IISERB to move to Minnesota; Farewell and wish you lots of luck and a bright career!
March 2018: Riki successfully defends her PhD Thesis, Congrats!
March 2018: Srikanth, Diksha and Manish's work on Palladium-catalyzed oxidative coupling of allyl alcohols with anilines is accepted in J. Org. Chem., Congrats!
February 2018: Paridhi's work on Cobalt-catalyzed C-H nitration of Indoles is accepted in Chem. -Asian. J., Congrats!
January 2018: Gaurav's work on the Pd-Catalyzed alpha-arylation approach towards isoquinolines and phenanthridines using silylenol ethers, is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
November 2017: Virendra gets the "Sai-Life Best Thesis Award" at XIII-JNOST Symposium held at BHU, Congrats!
November 2017: Paridhi gets the "Best Poster Award" at XIII-JNOST Symposium held at BHU, Congrats!
October 2017: Nandkishor completes his Compre and Graduate Seminar, Congrats!
September 2017: Surendra joins our Lab as a SERB National Post-Doctoral Fellow (NPDF).
July 2017: Prajyot, Neha and Tapasi join IISERB, welcome!
June 2017: Srikanth and Riki's Microreview "Amides as Weak-Coordinating Groups in Proximal C-H Bond Activation" is accepted in Eur. J. Org. Chem., Congrats!
June 2017: Manish graduates and leaves IISERB; Congrats and Farewell, wish you lots of luck!
April 2017: Srikanth's work on the Ru-Catalyzed Formal [3 + 3] Annulation of Anilines with Allyl Alcohols using a traceless DG strategy, is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
March 2017: Manish clears GATE as well as CSIR-UGC JRF qualifiers, Congrats!
March 2017: Pravin completes his Compre and Graduate Seminar, Congrats!
January 2017: Virendra successfully defends his PhD Thesis, Congrats!
December 2016: Riki's work on Pd(II)-catalyzed C-H halogenations utilizing weak-coordinating groups in aprotic media is accepted in J. Org. Chem., Congrats!
December 2016: Virendra and Neha's work on Ru(II)-catalyzed site-selective C-H arylation of isoquinolines is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
October 2016: Aniket successfully defends his PhD Thesis and leaves IISERB, Congrats and Farewell, wish you lots of luck and a bright career!
October 2016: Pravin qualifies CSIR-JRF too, Congrats!
August 2016: Riki's work on suppression of reductive cleavage of N-O bonds of aryl Weinreb amides is accepted in Chem. -Eur. J., Congrats!
August 2016: Nandkishor joins IISERB, welcome!
July 2016: Arun leaves IISERB; Farewell and wish you lots of luck!
July 2016: Aniket submits his Thesis, Congrats!
July 2016: Virendra leaves IISERB for his Post-Doctoral assignment, after submitting his Thesis. Farewell, wish you lots of luck and a bright career!
June 2016: Govind leaves IISERB for his Post-Doctoral assignment. Farewell, wish you lots of luck and a bright career!
May 2016: Mishel leaves IISERB; Farewell and wish you lots of luck!
May 2016: Mishel and Arun graduate; Congrats!
April 2016: Virendra presents his Open Seminar, Congrats!
February 2016: Aniket presents his Open Seminar, Congrats!
February 2016: Srikanth's work on the site-selective C-H allylation of Indoles is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
January 2016: Govind and Abhilasha's work on the site-selective C-H nitration of Anilines is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
January 2016: Ajit leaves IISERB for his Post-Doctoral assignment. Farewell, wish you lots of luck and a bright career!
January 2016: Pravin joins IISERB, welcome!
December 2015: Chiranjit gets the "Best Poster Award" at XI-JNOST Symposium held at NISER Bhubaneswar, Congrats!
October 2015: Gaurav completes his Compre and Graduate Seminar, Congrats!
September 2015: Ajit and Srikanth's work on dual alpha-arylation in synthesis of 3-aryl-2-alkenyl indoles is accepted in Org. Biomol. Chem., Congrats!
September 2015: Riki is promoted to SRF, Congrats!
September 2015: Chiranjit gets the "Best Poster Award" at InTeRaCTiONS-2015, Congrats!
June 2015: Abhilasha and Neha Kamal graduate and leave IISERB; Congrats and Farewell, wish you lots of luck!
May 2015: Govind successfully defends his PhD Thesis, Congrats!
May 2015: Ajit successfully defends his PhD Thesis, Congrats to the first PhD from the Group!
May 2015: Srikanth, Chiranjit and Paridhi complete their Compre and Graduate Seminars, Congrats!
April 2015: Riki's work on ortho-C-H olefination of aryl Weinreb amides is accepted in Chem. -Asian. J., Congrats!
April 2015: Govind's work on mechanistic aspects of C-H arylation of 4H-chromenes is accepted in Chem. -Eur. J., Congrats!
March 2015: Virendra's work on C-H arylation of Indoles is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
February 2015: Ajit's work on Indoles and Carbazoles is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
November 2014: Ajit and Govind present their Open Seminars, Congrats!
October 2014: Sujit leaves IISERB. Farewell and wish you luck!
October 2014: Paridhi joins our Group, welcome!
August 2014: Gaurav Saini joins our group for his PhD, welcome!
June 2014: Akanksha graduates and leaves IISERB; Congrats and Farewell, wish you lots of luck!
June 2014: Ajit and Virendra's collaborative work with SM group gets accepted in J. Phys. Chem B., Congrats!
May 2014: Virendra's work on C-H arylations of isoquinolines is accepted in Chem. Commun., Congrats!
May 2014: Riki completes her Compre and Grad Seminar, Congrats!
March 2014: Virendra is promoted to SRF, Congrats!
January 2014: Chiranjit and Srikanth join IISERB, welcome!
July 2013: Sujit joins IISERB as a post-doc, welcome!
June 2013: Govind's work on oxidative-Heck of dihydropyrans is accepted in Adv. Synth. Catal., Congrats!
June 2013: Our Lab moves into IISERB Main Campus
June 2013: Virendra's work on C-H arylations of quinolines is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
May 2013: Gaurav graduates and leaves IISERB; Congrats and farewell, wish you luck!
November 2012: Riki joins IISERB, welcome!
October 2012: Virendra completes his Compre and Grad Seminar, Congrats!
August 2012: Govind is promoted to SRF, Congrats!
August 2012: Govind gets the "Best Poster Award" at CCBNP, Hyderabad, Congrats!
March 2012: Ajit's work on regioselective alpha-arylation of enones is accepted in Org. Lett., Congrats!
November 2011: Govind completes his Compre and Grad Seminar, Congrats!
August 2011: Ajit and Aniket are promoted to SRF, Congrats!
March 2011: Virendra joins IISERB, welcome!
March 2011: Ajit and Aniket complete their Compre and Grad Seminar, Congrats!
August 2010: Govind joins IISERB, welcome!
August 2009: Ajit and Aniket join IISERB, welcome!
July 2009: MK Joins IISERB